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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published October 1972
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 68
Editing Al Hewetson
Notes All info used by permission of Richard Arndt.

Cover Details - "Skull-Forest of Old Earth!"

Genre Horror
Pencils Jose Mirelles (painting)
Inks Jose Mirelles (painting)
Colors Jose Mirelles (painting)
Letters typeset

1 page Mr. Pook foreword, introduction, preface, afterword

Characters Mr. Pook
Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Pablo Marcos
Inks Pablo Marcos
Notes Frontispiece and titlepage. Introduces a horror host, later named Mr. Pook, for Nightmare. The contents page features the first mention of the term "horror-mood" in this title.

7 page story "Markheim"

Genre Horror
Script Robert Louis Stevenson (author); Al Hewetson (adaption)
Pencils Jesus Duran [as D. Duran]
Inks Jesus Duran [as D. Duran]
Notes Art credited to D. Duran.

3 page [Nightmare World] story "The Nightmare World Of James Edgar: Call Them Ghouls, Call Them Trolls, Call Them Things"

Genre Horror
Script James Edgar; Al Hewetson
Pencils Pablo Marcos
Inks Pablo Marcos
Notes From a dream by James Edgar. "Nightmare World" began a semi-regular series in which readers sent in their nightmare, which were then adapted into stories.

1 page story "The Guillotine"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Felipe Dela Rosa
Inks Felipe Dela Rosa

2 page story "Zoo For The Beasts Of The Universe"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Maelo Cintron
Inks Maelo Cintron
Notes Cintron’s professional debut

2 page letters page "Lunatic Letters’ Page [+ Editorial]"

Script Al Hewetson
Letters Typeset

7 page Shoggoths, The story "The Skull Forest Of Old Earth"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Zesar Lopez
Inks Zesar Lopez
Notes The Shoggoths series begins, with Hewetson using H. P. Lovecraft’s Shoggoths as villains, although the stories themselves are new, not adaptations. Hewetson’s Shoggoths didn’t physically resemble Lovecraft’s descriptions either.

4 page text article "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils ? (photo)
Letters Typeset
Notes Text article with photos.

5 page story "The 300th Birth Day Party"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Ramon Torrents
Inks Ramon Torrents
Reprinted in Psycho (Skywald, 1971 series) #23 (January 1975)

11 page story "The Gargoyle Trilogy"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Felipe Dela Rosa
Inks Felipe Dela Rosa
Notes Although the gargoyles are identical, this story has nothing to do with the Human Gargoyles series. Next issue with the Gargoyles is Nightmare #10. Part 1 of 9?

8 page story "The Night In The Wax Museum"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Villanova
Inks Villanova
Notes The artist’s name is variously spelled with one or two L’s. Since his work for Seaboard/Atlas is spelled with 2 L’s, I’ve followed that custom.

1 page story "Dracula"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Pablo Marcos
Inks Pablo Marcos

9 page story "The Beast Within"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Amador Garcia
Inks Amador Garcia

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Ad for Nightmare #10"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Pablo Marcos
Inks Pablo Marcos
Notes Next issue ad

1 page text story "The Thing In The Alley"

Genre Horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Berni Wrightson
Inks Berni Wrightson
Notes Back cover. This story also appears, due to a printers' error, in Warren's Eerie #42 the same month! Art originally intended for Science Fiction Odyssey #1.